Harnessing the Power of Land Mapping Data for Effective Land Policy Development
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 612
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban informatics; GeoAI; GIScience; spatial analysis; urban design
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Interests: spatial statistics; spatial data science; GIS; spatial planning
Interests: urban environment; urban sustainability; urban climate; remote sensing; GIS; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land mapping datasets have become one of the most critical sources of spatial information supporting land use policy and decision-making for achieving sustainable goals both socioeconomically and environmentally. Practical applications of land mapping data include environmental monitoring, urbanization assessment, spatial dynamics evaluation, and so on. Advances in remote sensing, crowdsourcing and citizen science, spatial statistics, and GIS greatly enhance the planning insights and diverse functionalities of land mapping.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights on the advances and applications of land mapping techniques and associated data analysis and management works in assisting the achievement of sustainable development targets and other socioeconomic or environmental goals. Research works on land use policy and management based on land mapping datasets are also welcome to be submitted to this Special Issue.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Advances in land mapping and remote sensing techniques;
- Research and reviews on land policy or land use management using land mapping data;
- Research applications of land mapping to achieve sustainable development goals;
- Geospatial data analysis and management on land mapping data;
- Other works that are highly associated with land mapping and land use policy.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Xiao Huang
Dr. Zehua Zhang
Dr. Cheolhee Yoo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land mapping
- land use policy and management
- land use and land cover (LULC) monitoring
- remote sensing
- spatial data
- sustainable development
- environmental monitoring
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